UWA buys sh100m climate gadgets
Jul 27, 2009
THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has bought modern equipment worth sh100m to monitor the rate at which climate change is shifting vegetation zones in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park, an official has disclosed.
By Bernard Masereka
THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has bought modern equipment worth sh100m to monitor the rate at which climate change is shifting vegetation zones in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park, an official has disclosed.
The Rwenzori senior warden, Nelson Guma, said a team of researchers and technicians would soon be dispatched to the park to install the equipment.
Addressing players in the tourism business at Rwakingi Bugoye sub-county, Guma said the rate at which glaciers were receding was alarming. Scientists say if nothing is done to check global warming, there will be no more snow on the mountain in the next 50 years.
Two years ago, the Italian meteorological department installed equipment to monitor the rate at which the glaciers were receding, but there is concern over the safety of the equipment.
Guma noted that a month ago, a solar panel at Bujuku camp was stolen. Elish Baluku, a tourism officer of the Rwenzori Mountaineering Services, explained that other property was being stolen in other camps in the mountain.
THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has bought modern equipment worth sh100m to monitor the rate at which climate change is shifting vegetation zones in the Rwenzori Mountains National Park, an official has disclosed.
The Rwenzori senior warden, Nelson Guma, said a team of researchers and technicians would soon be dispatched to the park to install the equipment.
Addressing players in the tourism business at Rwakingi Bugoye sub-county, Guma said the rate at which glaciers were receding was alarming. Scientists say if nothing is done to check global warming, there will be no more snow on the mountain in the next 50 years.
Two years ago, the Italian meteorological department installed equipment to monitor the rate at which the glaciers were receding, but there is concern over the safety of the equipment.
Guma noted that a month ago, a solar panel at Bujuku camp was stolen. Elish Baluku, a tourism officer of the Rwenzori Mountaineering Services, explained that other property was being stolen in other camps in the mountain.